| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: One day the little children were playing at building rock chimneys.
There was not much sand there for little children to play in, so
that the children often built rock chimneys, and rock tables, and
rock fences.
As they were playing one little girl suddenly left the playground
and ran, calling: ``Mama! Mama! Come here; come this way, and see
the chimney we have built!''
Bessie Bell turned quickly from play and looked after the little
girl who was running across the playground to where three ladies
were standing.
The little girl caught the dress of one of the ladies, and came
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: thought she did. But she couldn't bear not to have all the
drawing-rooms with her. She couldn't bear the fact that, on
varnishing days, one could always get near enough to see his
pictures. Poor woman! She's just a fragment groping for other
fragments. Stroud is the only whole I ever knew."
"You ever knew? But you just said--"
Gisburn had a curious smile in his eyes.
"Oh, I knew him, and he knew me--only it happened after he was
dead."
I dropped my voice instinctively. "When she sent for you?"
"Yes--quite insensible to the irony. She wanted him vindicated--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: one of those who have an eye for faults and failures; that
you take a pleasure to find and publish them; and that,
having found them, you make haste to forget the overvailing
virtues and the real success which had alone introduced them
to your knowledge. It is a dangerous frame of mind. That
you may understand how dangerous, and into what a situation
it has already brought you, we will (if you please) go hand-
in-hand through the different phrases of your letter, and
candidly examine each from the point of view of its truth,
its appositeness, and its charity.
Damien was COARSE.
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